Working class underachievement

Which social class underachieve most in education?

• Upper class

• Upper middle class

• Lower middle class

• Working class

Which two types of factor are there in sociology when explaining educational underachievement?

• Lads and Earoles

• Home and School

• Inside school and Outside School

• Parents and Teachers

This writer suggested that working class students want immediate gratification rather that deferred gratification and become disengaged if their isn’t a reward straight away.

• Bernstein

• Sugarman

• Willis

• Ball

Douglas, (1964) found out that the single most important factor explaining educational success or failure was: 

• High cultural capital
• Amount of parental encouragement
• Postcode
• Labelling

Restricted and elaborated code are terms which are used by which sociologist to explain the different language types of working class and middle class people

• Fran Ansley
• Sue Sharpe
• Basil Bernstein
• Karl Marx

One explanation which has been given for poor educational performance of working class students which includes things such as poor housing and lack of a place to study is: 

• External Factors 
• Cultural Deprivation
• Social Deprivation 
• Material deprivation

Youdell and Gilborn talked about the way that teachers separate students, related to their expectations, into three groups of students and direct the most attention to the two highest groups who are likely to pass their GCSEs. This term was:

• Educational Inequality
• Educational triage
• Labelling theory
• Baccalaureate

Which sociologists did an experiment on teachers to see if they would teach mixed ability students differently if they were found to be in different ability sets?

• Youdell

• Douglas

• Bernstein

• Rosenthal and Jacobsen

Althusser said schools were…

• Ideological state apparatus

• Repressive state apparatus

• Government state apparatus

• Ideological control

Which of these is not a group in Youdell’s education triage?

• Those who will pass anyway

• Waste of time

• Borderline C/D

• Hopeless cases